Playing Games.....

When a person works for a large company, they have many personalities to deal with on a daily basis.  In the complicated world of business things happen that need to be dealt with professionally.  In the world of business people come and go.  The workers tend to stay where they are and drive the company along with upper management.  Low level managers (wanna be's) tend to move often and also are those to do the most damage to morale and amount of friction that exists in a corporation.

Entry levelers are usually the ones doing most of the dirty work for upper managers or owners.  New management trainees are willing to do any and all the dirty work with the premise that they are going to get promoted.  My philosophy is that if you choose to be the company henchman, things will work out more or less that you also will be sacrificed sooner or later by someone else looking to go up the ladder of success.  The secret is that if you do not it to happen to you do not do it to others.

It is a shame some people want to get promoted in life by going "piggyback" on you.   When our ancestors were growing up, it seems there was more honor in their business dealings.  Everything would happen  with  a handshake.  Today people are much more hungry than they were.  Job security does not exist for non-union employees.   It is not good when someone says one thing and really they are plotting another.  This usually happens because people are trying to make themselves look better in the public eye.
As the economy becomes tighter and jobs are more difficult to find, everyone is more willing to be a traitor to each other.  Everyone involved in the workplace serves each other worthless stories.  This happens constantly, in order, to keep their jobs going.   Unemployment is high and this forces everyone in the workplace to have no loyalty other than to themselves.  We are in an environment of cut-throats every moment where everyone is looking out for themselves and you only matter if the results are because of you.
Because they are low on the totem pole, managers only have loyalty to themselves.  No one is secure and everyone must watch their tail.  Corporate philosophy is to constantly be one the warpath with the employees and have everybody on edge.  Mutual respect has gone out the window now we are in a place where everyone is suspect of one another.  Sort of a do it or else atmosphere.

Yes today does not necessarily mean yeas tomorrow.